This legislation (S. 820 and H.R. 1731) seeks to establish
"enriched" battery cages for egg-laying hens as a national standard that
cannot be changed by individual states or by public vote. Hens
should not be confined to battery cages, "enriched" or not.

Ninety-five percent of egg-laying hens spend their entire short,
miserable lives crammed into tiny cages with as many as ten hens per cage.
Battery cages are stacked on top of one another and are packed into
windowless sheds with thousands of hens per shed. Hens are so confined in
battery cages that each bird has less than half the size of a sheet of paper
to herself. These hens never get to breathe fresh air, see or feel the
sunlight, nest, forage, or even turn around.

As one of your constituents and a supporter of In Defense of Animals, I
am writing to tell you that I oppose the Egg Products Inspection Act
Amendments of 2013, S. 820 and H.R. 1731. If this bill is passed into law,
it will institutionalize the cruel confinement of egg-laying hens in battery
cages throughout the United States.

Ninety-five percent of egg-laying hens spend their entire short,
miserable lives crammed into tiny cages with as many as ten hens per cage.
Battery cages are stacked on top of one another and are packed into
windowless sheds with thousands of hens per shed. Hens are so confined in
battery cages that each bird has less than the size of a sheet of paper to
herself. These hens never get to breathe fresh air, see the sunlight, nest,
forage, or even turn around.

This legislation seeks to establish "enriched" battery cages for
egg-laying hens as a national standard that cannot be changed by individual
states or by public vote. Hens should not be confined to battery cages,
"enriched" or not. Please oppose the Egg Products Inspection Act Amendments
of 2013. Thank you.

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